Re: Mesa in F37- vaapi support disabled for h264/h265/vc1

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> Lack of legal action is not evidence of no further legal action. There are multiple
> possible explanations:
> 
> - they see no point because going after distros would waste time and money and bring bad
> PR
> - going after Redhat who would assume liability is a different story as they’re a Fortune
> 500 company
> - they or some other company (through merger or acquisition) may suddenly decide to patent
> troll
> 
> That and the Streisand effect makes this accident more public which draws attention and
> scrutiny.

I think the hardware vendors shipping fedora should be concerned about the patents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#Provision_for_costless_software
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